Chapter 3: Night Of Darkness

Darkness soon fell. Bill was sitting on a hill called Maple Hill. {(Ben's Hill in the movie and PS2/GBA game), before it was officially renamed Ben's Hill}. Bill and Ben called it their hill.

Ben walked up the hill.

"Hey, dad." said Ben.

"Hey, son." said Bill.

"I'm sorry about what I had done today." said Ben.

"Ben, you were right." said Bill. "You need fun. I'm sorry I neglected to see that."

"You know as well as I do that Dag's the one that said that." said Ben.

"I'm curious, Benjamin." said Bill. "What were you doing in Walnut Woods? It is forbidden by ancient raccoons."

"We...umm...Dag lost his baseball yesterday while we were in the Dandelion Meadows, and we were trying to find it..." began Ben.

"I will say this once and nicely." said Bill. "It is dangerous territory there."

"Raccoons are really small." said Ben. "What would the do? They're more afraid of us than what we shouldn't be of them."

"Benny, you're correct when you say raccoons are afraid of us." said Bill. "But those ones are very violent. They travel in tremendous packs. They're how I lost your mother. And how I got this." he said, revealing scars on his entire left arm.

"They killed mom?" asked Ben.

"I'm sorry, son." said Bill.

"You led her in there!" shouted Ben. "You killed her!"

"Benj, I loved your mother very much!" said Bill. "I didn't know about them until it happened!"

Ben ran off back to the barn.

The most evil coyote howls came from far over the hill.

In the barn, Dag was the only one who heard it, dropped a glass of Coca-Cola with widened eyes.

He ran outside to Bill and the evil coyotes to help him fight off the others.

Jason picked Dag up by the neck.

"You'll do just fine." said Jason, cutting Dag's left eyelid open and throwing him unconsciously against a tree.

Jason then cut Bill's chest in which he fell to the ground.

Jason just stood in front of Bill's body, motionless.

Bill quickly kicked Jason square in the chest. Jason went flying and Bill fell back to the ground.

Barn.

Ben walked up to Miles.

"Have you seen Dag?" asked Ben.

"He ran out the door some minutes ago." said Miles. "Why have you befriended a coyote? He's-"

"Ben." said the voice of a little bit younger female sheepdog named Jane. She had black bangs covering the right side of her face. She had a black ponytail with a pink bow holding it up.

"Yes?" asked Ben.

"It's Dag and Bill." said Jane.

"What!" asked Ben and ran up there.

Dag's cut was bleeding. He was looking at Bill and he looked up at Ben with tears in his eyes.

Ben cradled his father's head.

"I'll always be with you." said Bill.

"Please don't leave me." begged Ben.

But it was too late.